HSC Ancient History Practice Questions - HSC Ancient History (NSW Higher School Certificate, Year 12, 2-unit) Exam - HSC Ancient History Practice Questions - HSC Ancient History (NSW Higher School Certificate, Year 12, 2-unit) Exam

Question 1

In which Italian region were the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum located?

Campania, on the Bay of Naples Latium, inland from Ostia Etruria, north of the Tiber Apulia, on the Adriatic coast

Correct Answer:

Campania, on the Bay of Naples

Question 2

Which ancient author provides the most detailed surviving eyewitness account of the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius?

Livy Pliny the Younger Suetonius Vitruvius

Correct Answer:

Pliny the Younger

Question 3

What name do volcanologists give to the tall eruption column phase described by Pliny the Younger for Vesuvius in AD 79?

Strombolian eruption Hawaiian eruption Plinian eruption Icelandic fissure eruption

Correct Answer:

Plinian eruption

Question 4

How did the AD 79 burial deposits at Pompeii and Herculaneum mainly differ?

Both cities were buried only under gentle ash fall of equal depth Herculaneum was flooded by the sea while Pompeii burned in a city fire Pompeii was entombed in lava flows while Herculaneum escaped burial Pompeii was buried largely under pumice and ash fall; Herculaneum under hot pyroclastic flows that hardened into tuff

Correct Answer:

Pompeii was buried largely under pumice and ash fall; Herculaneum under hot pyroclastic flows that hardened into tuff

Question 5

Which nineteenth-century archaeologist is best known for developing the plaster-cast technique that preserved the forms of Vesuvius victims at Pompeii?

Giuseppe Fiorelli Heinrich Schliemann Howard Carter Arthur Evans

Correct Answer:

Giuseppe Fiorelli

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